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New York's graffiti law said to violate free speech
NEW YORK (Reuters) - Seven young artists on Tuesday sued New York City over its strict anti-graffiti law, saying it violated their constitutional right to free speech.
The group, backed by fashion designer Marc Ecko, argued in federal court that the city went too far by banning people under 21 from possessing spray paint or broad-tipped markers.
Gabriel Taussig, a lawyer for New York City, said the law "strikes a proper constitutional balance between the First Amendment rights (to free speech) and the need to control the long-standing plague of graffiti."
The law took effect at the start of the year.
City Councilman Peter Vallone, who sponsored the law and has sparred with Ecko over the issue, accused the designer of hiding behind free speech rights to promote his video game and brand name.
The city says its aggressive police tactics, which combat even minor vandalism to send a message that no law-breaking will be tolerated, have helped dramatically lower crime.
Vallone wants to permanently erase the image of New York in the 1970s and 1980s, when graffiti, much of it obscene, covered subway cars and many buildings.
"Graffiti is on the rise. It's becoming glorified again. We don't have the police we used to and those we have are concentrating on terrorism," he said.
Ecko disagreed: "An 18-year-old can buy cigarettes, vote, and go into the army, but he can't buy a can of spray paint in Manhattan. It's silly."
The feud between Ecko and Vallone erupted last year when Ecko launched a video game featuring graffiti art and later got a city permit for a "block party" that included painting graffiti on mock subway cars. Vallone saw it as a corporate promotion of Ecko's video game.
The suit names Vallone and Mayor Michael Bloomberg, saying they have "waged a personal war against graffiti art and graffiti artists, fueled by their personal, subjective distaste for the art form."
http://reuters.myway.com/article/20060426/2006-04-26T161851Z_01_N25134194_RTRIDST_0_ODD-LIFE-GRAFFITI-DC.html
Doppelhaken, Draco, Richard H, ToddinFl, Augustus Sutter, Chain, Subrosa, Jarl, White Will, whose next?
Posted : 26/04/2006 9:05 pm
Jew York, is like Vegas to me. It represents everything I hate.
I'd like to see more graffiti, in both shitties.
Home Depot has a sale, for .99 cents a can, go for it, kiddies.:cheers:
Niggers aren't human. Humans don't behave that way.
God Bless Elon Musk, Donald Trump, and America, and God Damn the anti-white, anti-christian, and anti-American jewish controlled media.
Posted : 26/04/2006 9:53 pm
I would love to see NYC nuked.
But just before it happened, all of the WNs living there would have left the city, just like the jews did before the Towers were hit.
The ink of the learned is as precious as the blood of the martyr. For one drop of ink may make millions think.
Posted : 26/04/2006 10:33 pm
"The city says its aggressive police tactics, which combat even minor vandalism to send a message that no law-breaking will be tolerated, have helped dramatically lower crime."
I wonder why nobody ever says this when the crimes are darkies attacking whites?
"Go, Nazis, Go!"
Posted : 27/04/2006 9:14 am
I would love to see NYC nuked.
But just before it happened, all of the WNs living there would have left the city, just like the jews did before the Towers were hit.
Like the dude in the bible (Lott?) who was warned by God to leave that city, but his wife was turned into a pillar of salt because she looked back at the burning city (which was not really a problem in those days because there were plenty of single chicks, what with all the wars and violence and God's wrath and shit)...
Posted : 27/04/2006 9:26 am
I remember back in the early 70's, when NYC was deluged with graffiti, Norman Mailer wrote an essay defensing graffiti and the gangs...expressing their freedom and manhood. After a period of clean-up, looks like the garbage is returning. The tribe will destroy, even as they bemoan it. They are what they are.
Posted : 27/04/2006 9:27 am
Its really simple. Even the most simple of man knows America was not built on third world scum, or black savages.
It's in their vile blood to make our once nice cities and towns look like the same third world hell holes they left behind.
Their version of free speech, is known to the common person as destruction of property.
Posted : 27/04/2006 10:32 am